On Nov 21, 9:34 am, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote:
> What happens is that Android automatically scales drawables down to ldpi
> resolution, it's transparent to the application.
That would be good. Does anybody know where that is documented?
This page says - "If no matching resources are available, the platform
loads the default resources and scales them up or down as needed"
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#support
It doesn't say (that I have noticed) what happens if there is no
matching resource AND no default... Where is that specified?
>
> Works pretty well: hdpi drawables, on the other hand, often look better
> if created by hand (not always, but often).
>
> Device compatibility is not affected by what resources you have (and
> don't have) in your application.
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 21.11.2010 20:08, jotobjects пишет:
>
>
>
> > Hm. So the sample apps don't support ldpi at all. What happens if
> > you try to run such an app on an ldpi device? Does it fail? Is not
> > allowed to be installed in the first place (not sure how that could be
> > detected in advance)?
>
> > Is it true that there are hardly any (or none) ldpi Android devices or
> > is it important for an app to support ldpi screens?
>
> > Is it a reasonable alternative to put the mdpi graphics in the default
> > drawables directory and have those used for mdpi and scaled for ldpi?
> > Or have it in drawables-mdpi and in drawables? I'm trying to weigh
> > the options, if any, of having our designer resource create the ldpi
> > images.
>
> > On Nov 19, 11:08 pm, Dianne Hackborn<[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The current base platform doesn't include ldpi images, so you'd need to
> >> make
> >> them yourself. If you are targeting>= 1.6, you don't need any drawables in
> >> the base "drawable" folder, just for whatever density you want and the
> >> system will pick and scale the drawable that best matches.
>
> >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM, jotobjects<[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> I'm copying some system Icons into my app - for instance
> >>> ic_menu_add.png. There is one in drawable-mdpi and one in drawable-
> >>> hdpi, but not in drawable or drawable-ldpi.
> >>> What icon would be used on a ldpi device? My understanding is that
> >>> you need a default version in drawable or one in each of the density
> >>> sub-directories. Is that how it works?
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